CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:

Dear Friends,

The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):

Global Arab Texts and their Publics

Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]

CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:

Dear Friends,

The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):

Global Arab Texts and their Publics

Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]

The new MLA Forum on Global Hispanophone is delighted to invite submissions for our inaugural session/s, which will take place at the MLA Annual Convention in Austin, Texas, on 7-10 January, 2016. (Note: these Calls for Papers are also available on the MLA website).

Hispanophone Literatures and Postcolonial Theory

The term ‘Hispanophone li…[Read more]

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Dear Colleagues,

I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).

GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum  to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-a&hellip;[Read more]

If you’re concerned about the place of eighteenth-century studies in the new forum structure being implemented by the MLA, you might consider applying to the following proposed special session for the 2016 convention in Austin:

Naming the 18th Century. What’s at stake in naming this period “long” (1660-1830), “short” (1715-1789), early modern, En…[Read more]

A call for papers for the 2016 convention now up at mla.org:

Naming the 18th Century. What’s at stake in naming this period “long” (1660-1830), “short” (1715-1789), early modern, Enlightenment (etc.)? What’s its role in the new MLA forum structure? 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2015 to Dustin D. Stewart (dustin.d.stewart@gmail.com) and Joshua…[Read more]

Call for Papers. “Considering the Western Sahara: Multi-Discipinary Approaches to Post-Colonialism”Special Issue on the Western Sahara for the Journal

Transmodernity, co-edited “y Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo and Jill Robbins.

Call for Papers:

This special issue aims to provide an interdisciplinary assessment of the representations of the unreso…[Read more]

Call for Papers. “Considering the Western Sahara: Multi-Discipinary Approaches to Post-Colonialism”Special Issue on the Western Sahara for the JournalTransmodernity, co-edited by Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo and Jill Robbins.

Call for Papers:

This special issue aims to provide an interdisciplinary assessment of the representations of the unresol…[Read more]

Please join us for our MLA Panel tomorrow:
678. Politics of Difference and Poetics of Reconciliation
Sunday, 11 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 14, VCC East

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on South Asian Languages and Literatures

Presiding: Masood Raja, Univ. of North Texas

1. “Cosmopolitan Aesthetics in Shakeel Adilzada’s Baazigar,” Masood R…[Read more]

We held our annual Executive committee meeting yesterday and will soon share the news about new members for the next five year term.

Meanwhile, please do post your comments and suggestions to this forum so that we can make this into a viable place to generate ideas and to increase the visibility of our group.

Dear Colleagues:

It is with great pleasure that I invite you to participate in this graduate student conference at the University of California in Irvine. Please see attached CFP and feel free to visit the Eco-Materialisms website for more information.

EcoMaterialisms: Organizing Life and Matter

University of California, Irvine

Friday…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

this is to invite you to submit abstracts to the Annual ASLS (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) Conference, to be held in Stirling, Scotland, on 3-5 July 2015:
<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>EMPIRES AND REVOLUTIONS
<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>R. B. Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish writers on Gl…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to invite you to submit abstracts to the Annual ASLS (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) Conference, to be held in Stirling, Scotland, on 3-5 July 2015:
<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>EMPIRES AND REVOLUTIONS
<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>R. B. Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish writers on G…[Read more]